The Huffington Post gets into the eBook pricing discussion with this feature on whether eBook prices are too cheap. In a marketplace where the big publishers routinely overprice their titles, this headline only makes sense when put into context with the .99 discount price often set by Indie authors desperate to build a following.
That .99 price is too low for writers to live off of, unless they’re cranking out one bestseller after another. (Or it would do for novellas, perhaps short stories.) It’s a writer’s choice, but selling a novel for .99 just muddies the water on eBook pricing.
To build an audience, Indie authors would do better to give novels or novellas away for FREE and sell the rest of their titles at a affordable price.
Sooner or later the discussion will shift focus away from too much and too little and settle on fair pricing. That’s what the market will bear.
